Student Prizes Three students affiliated with UCI Community Resilience received school and campus awards in spring 2019. Emanuel Preciado, School of Social Ecology, Dean's Award for Community Engagement. The School of Social Ecology encourages students to contribute their talents and become active members of the community while they are pursuing their academic studies. Each [...]
Encuentro 2018 The author learns how to tan a hide at the Menīkānaehkem Community Center in the Menominee Nation, Wisconsin by Emanuel Preciado, June 2019. On a trip last November to the Menominee Nation’s reservation, I had the honor to stay on the reservation as a guest who traveled with others from [...]
Encuentro 2018 UC Irvine Students experience snow at the Menīkānaehkem farm in the Menominee Nation, Wisconsin By Karen Valladares. June 6, 2019. Last fall, I had the honor of being able to attend the encuentro between Santa Ana and the Menominee Nation in Wisconsin. I never imagined how life-changing the experience would [...]
Environmental Justice Writing Award Ceremony Click to download as PDF The 2019 UCI Courageous and Transformative Action for Environmental Justice Writing Awards Ceremony took place on Tuesday, June 4, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm at the Humanities Gateway, Room 1010. The ceremony included readings from select [...]
Join the 2019-20 Community Resilience Student Team 2017-18 student fellows from across the UC convene in an outdoor classroom during a leadership training intensive led by UCI Community Resilience Projects UCI Community Resilience Projects invites student applicants to join the 2019-20 Community Resilience student team. Participating students will receive an academic [...]
New Community Resilience Postcard Check out this new postcard to learn what UCI Community Resilience Projects has been up to lately!
Encuentro: Land and Freedom Exchange among community-based organizations in Santa Ana, California, and in the Menominee Nation, Wisconsin Exchanging stories about healing through the recovery of land and language at Menīkānaehkem Community Center in the Menominee Nation, Wisconsin In November 2018, community-based organizations in Santa Ana, California, and in the [...]
CRECE: Community in Resistance by Emanuel Preciado, MA, PhD student, UCI Community Resilience summer fellow, October 2018. I got involved with CRECE the summer of 2016 as an urban planning masters student at UC Irvine, at the time the group that ran la granjita was not yet called CRECE. I was an intern helping [...]
Karen Valladares Karen Valladares is a fourth-year first-generation undergraduate student majoring in Public Health Policy. She was inspired to go into public health after understanding the numerous events she had witnessed growing up were inhumane and unjust. Witnessing her mother’s unpleasant experiences sparked her passion to be a voice for those who cannot [...]